Expression of high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus from the Staphylococcus sciuri mecA homologue: Role of mutation(s) in the genetic background and in the coding region of mecA

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 215-224

  Wu, Shang Wei ^a   De Lencastre, Herminia ^a,b   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMMENSALISM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MECA GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PLASMIDS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI;

EID: 26444613367     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2005.11.215     Document Type: Article

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